Measure your satisfaction

You may awaken at some point and in your life with thoughts of what it would take to feel more satisfied. You think you've found what it takes to motivate you. You find energy to work toward it. This may mean taking a course, studying for a test, exerting an effort that motivates you further.

You have discovered new reason to get up in the morning. You nurture hope. You feel you get closer to achieving your this ultimate experience, and then, something happens and you aren't able to achieve it. How you react will determine whether you perceive yourself differently. How you see yourself will determine whether you seek to change your view or circumstances.

1. Do you choose to focus on other desires, expectations, needs, or demands?

2. Do you decide to forget your original desire, want, or conditioned need?

3. Do to reassure yourself and convince yourself to keep trying?

4. Do you question endlessly whether you gave up too soon?

5. Do you find ways to dispel your self-doubt?

6. Do you disavow fully any debt, past sense of obligation, or not let go?

7. Do to sense a desire to apologize for a perceived failure?

8. Do you recognize an opportunity to redefine success?

It may be difficult to decide when to give up on a particular plan for success or when to revise it and keep moving toward new things you believe in. Some people spend their entire lives believing in the possibility of realizing a certain kind of satisfaction, and never give up. No matter what the odds or obstacles, they have faith. Other people may develop a sense of impatience and give up or decide its wiser to change focus for better results.

Whatever your situation, a sense of success can be grounded in your perception of satisfaction. How would you define this feeling? If you don't yet think you know what this is, how do you think it would feel? What would you imagine would contribute to your sense of satisfaction? Perhaps you don't link satisfaction with success at all. Some people are completely non-emotional about success. How do you measure levels of satisfaction? Take steps to clarify it in relation to success:

a) Is it emotional?

b) Is it spiritual?

c) Is it qualifiable

d) Is it quantifiable?

e) Is it better understood another way?

Make it so

You may have a boss whom you respect.  You may have a partner and/or fmaily who's advice you've been known to take on occasion.  You may have friends who's views tend to make sense.  You may meet strangers who tell you a story that ignites sparks in your mind. Then, there's you.

• If someone tells you they don't believe in you, you can still choose to believe in yourself. 
• If someone tells you that your dreams aren't possible, then you can choose to disagree. 
• If someone tells you they'd advise you against your choices, you can say it's your prerogative.
• If someone tells you that you'll never achieve your desire, then you can prove them wrong.
• If someone tells you you're too lazy to make it, you can act to reveal selective blindness.
• If someone tells you you'll never advance, you can decide for yourself how to move ahead.
• If someone aims to dissuade you from a vision, learn to listen to your heart and go for it!
• If someone tells you that you'll never feel happy, tap into you untapped resources inside.
• If someone tells you they think you'll never change, remind yourself the verdict isn't yet in.
• If you've never listed affirmations before, its never too late to start meaningful, new things.

Power questions & power talk

Whenever you speak, realize words are powerful energy.  They hold potential based on how and what you express and to whom. Language has different impacts on people and the world as a whole.  Get ready to engage in power questions and power talk.

Even from something as simple as how you approach another person, you can gain more than a wealth of information.  Critical thinking becomes a valuable tool as you learn new approaches to obtaining information, and to weighing the pros and cons of what you hear. How words are formulated determines the power and impact they will have. 

Whether you seek to strengthen your relationships, to build a business, to deepen your sense of connectedness to spirituality and the world, or to enrich some other area of your life, consider the power of communication in the form of relevant questions.  Begin by asking yourself "why." 

Questions are a means to create abundance and affluence because they:

• Enable you to avoid arguments tactfully, with diplomacy and get to the point.
• Remind you how it can be desirable to talk less and listen more to others' needs.
• Allow you to empower someone to recognize what he/ she really wants.
• Probe into the mind of another person to teach you things about yourself and that person.
• Encourage a sense of appreciation, since you request and value the view of another.
• Help you realize that promoting respect and self-respect will lead to fruitful collaboration.

In addition to asking pertinent questions, the way you come across will determine whether you deserve the faith and confidence of another person. Your behaviour can help you win and hold the attention of other people or become the reason why you aren't to be taken seriously. So long as you always talk well of other people, be it past relations, colleagues or business competition, you will give others reason to praise and value you in varied capacities. What would stop you getting there?

12 tips to rediscover success

Neale Donald Walsch offers 12 ideas to encourage each of us to reflect and rediscover success. According to him, we already know how to tap into success principles.  The more you repeat these concepts in your mind, the more you will create uplifting, harmonious realities. His key message is, "stop trying to decide what to do, and start choosing what you wish to be."

1) avoid negative thoughts.

2) change your mind consciously and immediately if negatives seep in.

3) begin to understand who you are, and honor and demonstrate that in choices and evolution.

4) love yourself completely, just as you are.

5) love everyone else fully, just as they are.

6) appreciate and be grateful for life as it is.

7) forgive everyone for everything.

8) never deliberately hurt another person /creature again (emotionally, physically or other ways).

9) never mourn the death of another person again (you might temporarily mourn your loss).

10) never fear or mourn your own death.

11) tune in to raise awareness that everything is vibration; all you think, perceive, say and do.

12) do whatever it takes to adjust your inner energy and life energy you create around you to create the most meaningful experiences you can possibly imagine.

Delay isn't denial

Remind yourself that just because events do not unfold when you want them to, this doesn't mean you will be denied what you hope to experience. What about the gift of anticipation? You may not yet have learned waiting can be good for you. Perceived delays can actually be desireable.  Tell yourself you're simply being prepared for what is to come.  You'll enjoy the future more  because you have occasion to savour how it evolves and get things out of each step. Recognize the benefits of what you gain from waiting will outweigh the things you don't like.   Short-term discomfort will help you appreciate the longer time gains. You can also reframe irritations. After all, your attitude determines if you choose to like or dislike what happens. What about you?

For example, if you get uptight waiting to hear whether or not you were chosen for a new job, you may be focusing on the wrong things.  Make allowances.  Put your expectations aside.  Do what you can and focus on 'the here and now'.  What about positive experiences right in front of you? Aren't you missing out on the pleasure you could be experiencing where you are today?

Consider you may dwell on ways people irritate you.  When you magnify what you dislike, you focus on faults and will find it difficult to strengthen meaningful, successful relationships.  If you desire relationships, realize you have idiosynchrosies and weaknesses just like other people. Rather than be a complainer or a nag, highlight the good qualities. When to talk negatively about other people, this reflects back on yourself.  It detracts from your sense of success. 

Negative thinking causes you to second guess your choces. We all have good qualities inside.  Encourage, appreciate and praise friends and situations.  Remind yourself you shape yourself based on what you choose to experience.  The passage of time is required for relationships and situations to develop depth and longevity. Rather than focus on what is missing, why not be grateful for what success you already have or have had on the road to new kinds of success?

Success in any area of your life is accessible as you believe in yourself and your potential. How you feel about yourself comes across in what you do, how you think, behave and treat people. What goes around comes around and expecting success will contribute to experiencing it. Define what this concept means in your mind.  Your life will evolve as you attract your imagined views.  Remind yourself you do not only work on your timeline. Variables outside your control influence the where, when and how you will experience success. Hold on and believe.